Reconceptualizing Desire
There's a probably minor technical problem with the blog--I asked Gans about it, and he said UCLA was doing some update and it should be working in a couple of days. More than a week later and it's still not working, and I don't want to keep nagging Gans, with whom I don't really communicate at this point. It seemed like a good time to start something new. Medium is probably a way station, but it looks better than than GAblog at any rate, and it's fine for now. I doubt I had any readers who don't check out the reddit page or follow me on twitter, so no one will miss it there. Gans may ask me about it at some point, but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
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I'll be reading Stiegler and others like Simondon and writing about technology quite a bit. I don't know that we'll ever be finished with learning materials--there's no need to wait, as there's plenty to work with, and Joel's journal, it seems will create new teachers and learners.
You may be right about blog readers--other than Lasky, who has posted below, I don't think anyone "within" GA reads the blog (I've certainly never heard from any of them about it, and they know how to email me anyway)--but there might be others I don't know about.
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So you are not dependent on me being at the GABlog.
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I should have let you know that you can get an ebook version free from the Imperium Press website.
I was just following up on my explanation to "ice and rock" of why I didn't post this blog post on the GABlog. I said that it seems to me that no one who reads the blog would miss it being there, since they all follow my notifications on the reddit page and now on twitter. And there you were, proving my point.
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I posted the link to the blog post yesterday (or the day before), and I tweeted out the election related posts you see on the reddit page, so you should be getting notifications. Is this what you have:
https://twitter.com/bouvard38829538
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Yes. This was when I was working out the concept of the "Big Scenic Imgainary," ultimately as a critique of Gans's sloppy sociological commenting, at least for starters. Almost everyone still operates within the Big Scenic Imaginary--those who will end up governing (unless things just fall apart) will be those who step out of it.